https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb Made with wonder en-us 2021-11-04 20:08:53 UTC 2023-05-10 01:54:56 UTC hello@padlet.com giorgiac876 https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1868411537 John Lok brings a group of African men from current Ghana to England to teach them English and make them interpretors. This project was made to aim to stop the Portugese monopoly of gold and other goods in Africa]]> 2021-11-04 20:29:22 UTC https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1868411537 giorgiac876 https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1869633237 John Hawkins is first known Englishman pioneer who exported African men from Sierra Leone to Dominican Republic and Haiti to trade them to the Spanish for pearls, sugar, ginger and hides]]> 2021-11-05 10:26:04 UTC https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1869633237 giorgiac876 https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1869650492 King James I creates The Company of Adventurers of London Trading into the Parts of Africa. This company was a private joint stock company which allowed trading in Africa for profit. King James I granted a 31-year long monopoly of the exportation of goods from West Africa ]]> 2021-11-05 10:39:42 UTC https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1869650492 giorgiac876 https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1869720057 The Company of Adventurers of London Trading into the Parts of Africa changes name into The Royal African Company. It wad set up by the Stuart family and the City of London to regulate the exportacion of gold from the African coast. The company is financed by royal, aristocratic and commercial capital.]]> 2021-11-05 11:33:07 UTC https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1869720057 giorgiac876 https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1869721394  20 Africans arrived at Jamestown, Virginia, where they were purchased from Dutch privateers to aid in the English colony’s lucrative, labor-intensive cultivation of tobacco. As profits piled up and slavery spread through the American colonies, the British crown decided to exert control over the slave trade to the colonies (and the wealth it generated)]]> 2021-11-05 11:34:05 UTC https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1869721394 giorgiac876 https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1869723281  According to the Navigation Act , only English-owned ships could enter colonial ports. That same year, King Charles II granted a charter to the Company of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa. Led by the king’s younger brother James, the Duke of York (later King James II), this group had a monopoly on British trade with West Africa, including gold, silver and slaves.]]> 2021-11-05 11:35:27 UTC https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1869723281 giorgiac876 https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1869725676 the company collapse due to debts caused by the war between England and the Netherlands]]> 2021-11-05 11:36:52 UTC https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1869725676 giorgiac876 https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1869728804 the company transported an average of 5,000 slaves per year, most of which were shipped to colonies in the Caribbean and Virginia. Thousands of slaves arrived in the New World with the company’s initials branded on their chests.]]> 2021-11-05 11:39:11 UTC https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1869728804 giorgiac876 https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1869839639 James II’s deprived the company of its governor and its best means of enforcing its monopoly]]> 2021-11-05 12:40:58 UTC https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1869839639 giorgiac876 https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1869861849 After public deliberationsnthroughout the 169Os, Parliament passed the Africa Trade Act, which opened the slave trade to all English citizens for a period of thirteen years on payment of a percentage of duty on imports and exports. Independent slave traders became known as separate traders. These separate traders prevented the company from gaining parliamentary recognition for its monopoly and therefore, he Royal African Company monopoly ends, opening the trade to private traders from Bristol and Liverpool.]]> 2021-11-05 12:48:51 UTC https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1869861849 giorgiac876 https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1869865077 Under the Treaty of Utrecht following the War of the Spanish Succession, Britain is awarded the 'Asiento' or sole right to import an unlimited number of enslaved people to the Spanish Caribbean colonies for 30 years.

]]> 2021-11-05 12:50:34 UTC https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1869865077 giorgiac876 https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1869888604  Dutch merchants introduced sugar to Barbados and showed Barbadian planters how to grow and process sugarcane. They brought with them the knowledge and technology they had learnt from Brazilian plantations which they seized from the Portuguese in 1630. The Dutch supplied Barbadian planters with Africans, introduced plantation slavery and sold the sugar in Holland. Sugar was an important commodity and Barbados rapidly converted from an English style of agriculture with small farms growing crops, cotton and tobacco ]]> 2021-11-05 13:02:13 UTC https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1869888604 giorgiac876 https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1870130438  the 1698 act expired, opening up the slave trade to all]]> 2021-11-05 14:40:18 UTC https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1870130438 giorgiac876 https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1870256696 Portugese took african slaves to american colonies

]]> 2021-11-05 15:32:11 UTC https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1870256696 giorgiac876 https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1870353574 the price of a single slave was of £3-worth of traded goods.]]> 2021-11-05 16:13:57 UTC https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1870353574 giorgiac876 https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1870356094 Britain takes Jamaica from Spain. Sugar exports from Jamaica will enrich British owners]]> 2021-11-05 16:15:06 UTC https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1870356094 giorgiac876 https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1870359576 First Maroon War in the British colony of Jamaica. Groups of escaped slaves in the mountains repel British forces ]]> 2021-11-05 16:16:44 UTC https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1870359576 giorgiac876 https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1870442701 Rebellions by enslaved people in Jamaica last for several months and claim many lives.]]> 2021-11-05 16:55:12 UTC https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1870442701 giorgiac876 https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1870451697  Granville Sharp (one of the first British campaigners for the abolition of the slave tade) begins legal challenges to the British slave trade with the case of Jonathan Strong ]]> 2021-11-05 16:59:31 UTC https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1870451697 giorgiac876 https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1870455800 John Woolman, an American Quaker and early anti-slavery campaigner comes to England to gather support from English Quakers.
James Somerset case in London. Chief Justice Lord Mansfield rules that enslaved people in England cannot be forced to return to the West Indies.]]> 2021-11-05 17:01:31 UTC https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1870455800 giorgiac876 https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1870491462  British Quakers form a committee against slavery and the slave trade.

]]> 2021-11-05 17:18:40 UTC https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1870491462 giorgiac876 https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1870493591 The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the African Slave Trade is founded in London.]]> 2021-11-05 17:19:34 UTC https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1870493591 giorgiac876 https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1870495950 Rebellion by enslaved people in St Domingue triggers the Haitian Revolution, led by Toussaint L'Ouverture]]> 2021-11-05 17:20:40 UTC https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1870495950 giorgiac876 https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1870496939 Second Maroon War in Jamaica; Fedon's Rebellion in Grenada.

]]> 2021-11-05 17:21:11 UTC https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1870496939 giorgiac876 https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1870498425 St Domingue declared the Republic of Haiti, the first independent black state outside of Africa]]> 2021-11-05 17:21:57 UTC https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1870498425 giorgiac876 https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1870499438 The Act to Abolish the Transatlantic Slave Trade is passed in Parliament.]]> 2021-11-05 17:22:28 UTC https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1870499438 giorgiac876 https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1870502382 Enslaved people in the Caribbean gain their freedom. However, after emancipation, a system of apprenticeship was established.]]> 2021-11-05 17:23:59 UTC https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1870502382 giorgiac876 https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1870619074 The system of apprenticeship was abolished by the various colonial assemblies after pressure from the British public, completing the process of emancipation.]]> 2021-11-05 18:25:51 UTC https://padlet.com/giorgiac876/s2voiivbehmdwftb/wish/1870619074